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Cytori Therapeutics releases schedule of fall 2010 and investor conferences

Cytori Therapeutics announced today its fall 2010 conference schedule.

13 Sep 2010

UCLA psychologist explains measure to overcome drug addiction

Millions of Americans suffer from severe addictions that can ruin lives and are extremely difficult to control. Nearly 2 million enter roughly 12,000 addiction treatment programs in the U.S. each year.

9 Sep 2010

RevMed secures contract with Medical Investment to produce fixed needle safety syringe

RevMed has secured a binding 5 Year contract to produce 5M syringes/month of its 3mL fixed needle safety syringe with Medical Investment Group, LLC (MIG). MIG, a Massachusetts Limited Liability Company, will fulfill this obligation through its relationship with an internationally certified global medical device manufacturer.

7 Sep 2010

Revolutions Medical signs Letter of Intent for manufacturing RevVac Safety Syringes

Revolutions Medical signs Letter of Intent today with Medical Investment Group, LLC (MIG) for the Manufacturing of the RevVac Safety Syringe. The final terms are expected to be completed in definitive documents between the parties no later than September 17th, 2010.

4 Sep 2010

Unitract Tuberculin syringe clears FDA 510k market clearance

Unilife Corporation, today announced that its Unitract Tuberculin (TB) Syringe has received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

2 Sep 2010

Unilife Corporation 2010 fourth quarter revenue increases to $2.7 million

Unilife Corporation today announced preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

31 Aug 2010

Revolutions Medical seeks due recognition for RevVac vacuum operated auto retractable safety syringe

Revolutions Medical Corporation has notified the MDEA that there had been an error in awarding the Free Vac syringe the 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award when in fact Free Vac misrepresented ownership of the syringe. The syringe was actually Revolutions Medical Corporation's RevVac auto retractable safety syringe.

30 Aug 2010

DTC grants eligibility status to Medisafe 1 Technologies

Medisafe 1 Technologies Corp., a developer of a U.S. patented technology that physically prevents unauthorized administration of prescription medications, announced today that the company has been granted eligibility status by the Depository Trust Company. The DTC provides banks, brokerage firms and other institutions with an efficient means of moving securities and settling trades electronically.

26 Aug 2010

FDA approves Pfizer's Prefilled Dual-Chamber Syringe for XYNTHA administration in hemophilia A patients

Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval of the use of a Prefilled Dual-Chamber Syringe for administration of XYNTHA® Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant) Plasma/Albumin-Free to hemophilia A patients. XYNTHA is a recombinant factor VIII product indicated for both the control and prevention of bleeding episodes in patients with hemophilia A (congenital factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia) and for surgical prophylaxis in patients with hemophilia A.

9 Aug 2010

Progenics second-quarter total revenue decreases to $2.3 million

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced its results of operations for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2010.

9 Aug 2010

Progenics announces EMA CHMP positive opinion for RELISTOR in pre-filled syringes

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency, has issued a positive opinion for RELISTOR (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection in pre-filled syringes.

7 Aug 2010

Kaiser Family Foundation/CSIS forum reviews AIDS 2010, looks ahead to AIDS 2012

Last month's 18th International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 in Vienna, Austria, will be remembered as the first since the global economic downturn, the growing recognition of treatment as part of prevention and a focus on the importance of human rights, HIV/AIDS experts said Thursday during a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. A webcast of the event is available online.

6 Aug 2010

AMRI second-quarter adjusted EPS increases to $0.06

AMRI today reported financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

5 Aug 2010

ICU Medical's Neutron Neutral-Pressure Needleless Connector receives FDA clearance

ICU Medical, Inc., a worldwide leader in the development, manufacture and sale of proprietary, disposable medical connection systems for use in vascular therapy applications, today confirmed that it has received FDA 510-k clearance for the Neutron™ Neutral-Pressure Needleless Connector.

4 Aug 2010

West Pharmaceutical Services second-quarter gross profit increases 5.8% to $83.2 million

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. today announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2010.

3 Aug 2010

Opinions: IDUs and HIV; AIDS 2010; International Violence Against Women Act

In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Evan Wood, associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, writes about the Vienna Declaration, a document he helped to draft, that calls for international leaders to revise drug policies to incorporate greater scientific evidence and promote HIV prevention, treatment and care for drug users.

31 Jul 2010

MAQUET Cardiovascular launches VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting System

MAQUET Cardiovascular today announced the launch of its VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting (EVH) System, which utilizes next-generation HEMOPRO cut-and-seal technology to reduce thermal spread and to achieve optimal conduit quality for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients. The minimally invasive VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 system is an example of MAQUET Cardiovascular's commitment to EVH, and technologies that promote the highest level of conduit quality.

27 Jul 2010

Nano-patch to replace needles for vaccination soon: Study

Those who fear needles have good news awaiting them. Australian researchers have developed a new method of vaccine delivery using needle-free nano-patches. These could also be mailed to people during pandemics. This breakthrough is published in the latest edition of the journal Small.

26 Jul 2010

AIDS 2010: Obama, Clinton vow U.S. support to global fight against HIV/AIDS

During the closing ceremonies of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, President Barack Obama "on Friday pledged to redouble efforts to fight HIV and AIDS through his Global Health Initiative, despite dealing with economic hard times in the wake of a global recession," Reuters reports. According to the news service, "Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said their focus was on a broad, sustainable and effective approach to the global epidemic" (Kelland, 7/23).

26 Jul 2010

AIDS 2010 calls for extension of human rights protections as central tenet of global response to AIDS

The appalling lack of access to scientifically proven interventions for key populations at risk -- including sex workers, men who have sex with men and people who use drugs - and the lagging scale up of simple and inexpensive treatment regimens to prevent vertical transmission of HIV reflect persistent, underlying human rights violations that threaten future progress on AIDS, according to organizers of the XVIII International AIDS Conference taking place in Vienna this week under the theme of Rights Here, Right Now.

23 Jul 2010

Syringe News and Research

Cytori Therapeutics releases schedule of fall 2010 and investor conferences

UCLA psychologist explains measure to overcome drug addiction

RevMed secures contract with Medical Investment to produce fixed needle safety syringe

Revolutions Medical signs Letter of Intent for manufacturing RevVac Safety Syringes

Unitract Tuberculin syringe clears FDA 510k market clearance

Unilife Corporation 2010 fourth quarter revenue increases to $2.7 million

Revolutions Medical seeks due recognition for RevVac vacuum operated auto retractable safety syringe

DTC grants eligibility status to Medisafe 1 Technologies

FDA approves Pfizer's Prefilled Dual-Chamber Syringe for XYNTHA administration in hemophilia A patients

Progenics second-quarter total revenue decreases to $2.3 million

Progenics announces EMA CHMP positive opinion for RELISTOR in pre-filled syringes

Kaiser Family Foundation/CSIS forum reviews AIDS 2010, looks ahead to AIDS 2012

AMRI second-quarter adjusted EPS increases to $0.06

ICU Medical's Neutron Neutral-Pressure Needleless Connector receives FDA clearance

West Pharmaceutical Services second-quarter gross profit increases 5.8% to $83.2 million

Opinions: IDUs and HIV; AIDS 2010; International Violence Against Women Act

MAQUET Cardiovascular launches VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting System

Nano-patch to replace needles for vaccination soon: Study

AIDS 2010: Obama, Clinton vow U.S. support to global fight against HIV/AIDS

AIDS 2010 calls for extension of human rights protections as central tenet of global response to AIDS

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